Epheaim tuckee



E. TUCKER.-

yIMSIGRACM 0R HOLDER.

(No-Model.)

No. 312,040. Patented Peb. 10, 1885.

M .ZIM

N. Pains. Phmumognpner. wnsmnmnn. llc;

UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

EPHRAIM TUCKER, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO l EDWARD W. VAILL, OF SAME PLACE.

MUSIC RACK OR HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,040, dated February 10, 1885.

Application led January 5, 1884.

(No model To all whom, may concern:

Be it known that I, EPHEAIM TUCKER, of the city of Worcester, county of Vorcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Music Racks or Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide for folding a basket-shaped music rack or holder into a small compass for transportation, and for holding the said rack in the proper shape, when extended for use, insuch a manner that it may be lifted without the Weight causing it to fold, thus insuring great strength and stiffness in the rack when distended for use.

In the drawings, Figure l is an end view of thesaidrack. Fig. Zisasideview. Fig.3isa plan, and Fig. 4 is an end View, of the rack as folded for transportation.

The rack itself is composed of the vertical side pieces, A B, which may be more or less ornamented. The bottom of the said rack is made in two parts, D E. These are hinged to the side pieces, A B, as at l, and they are also hinged at H tothe bottom edge of the central partition, K.

At the end portions of the central partition, K, there are ornamental end pieces, F, hinged at G to the central partition, K. These end pieces swing similarly to doors or gates, and each one is preferably made with a projecting pin, as at 3, entering a notch in the angle-piece N. There are parallel-motion bars M, pivoted at 4 at their outer ends to the angle-pieces, and at theirinner ends by the screws O to the edge of the central parti- Y tion, K. These parts are constructed so that when the end pieces are swung inwardly into the positions represented by the dotted lines in Fig. 3 the central partition, K, can be raised bodily, and the bottom boards and links M will swing into nearly vertical positions, and the music rack or holder will assume the position represented in Fig. 4, the paris lying close against each other.

To support this music-rack I make use of suitable folding legs. I prefer to employ two pairs of cross or X legs, T, pivoted at their upper ends, 4, to the angle-pieces of the basket or holder, and at 5 they are pivoted to each other, so that as the basket or holder is folded by being drawn upwardly the X legs will fold toward each other. These legs, however, in-

-stead of being pivoted at 4, might be united by the pivot O, so as to assume an inverted- V shape, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. l, there being stops at 7 to prevent the V-legs from spreading and to steady the basket or holder. Vith either form of folding legs I make use of a bottom shelf, S, the same being made in two parts hinged together at 8 and connected to the cross-bars 9 by metal loops, so that as the legs are folded together the center part of the shelf may be folded upwardly, the parts when folded assuming the position indicated in Fig. 4.l

When the music rack or holder is spread for use, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3, the same is very strong and well adapted to hold the weight of the music or other articles placed into or upon the same, and it is usually preferable to form a handle or handles in the upper part of the partition K, by means of which the rack can be lifted or moved from one place to another.

The end pieces or gates,F,may be hinged to the angle-pieces N, instead of to the partition K.

I claim as my invention as follows:

I. The combination, in the rack or holder, of the bottom boards, D E, a central partition, K, hinged at its lower edge to theinner edges of the bottom boards, the side pieces, A B, hinged to the bottom boards, the hinged end pieces or gates, and the links M M, pivoted at O to the partition K, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a music rack or holder, of the bottom boards, D E, a central partition, K, hinged at its lower edge to the bottom boards, the side pieces, A B, hinged to the bottom boards, the hinged end pieces, the links M, and the folding legs T, substantially as set forth.. v

3. The combination, with the folding legs and the hinged shelf connected to the legs, of f the bottom boards, side and end pieces hinged together and forming a folding music-holder, and the connections between the same and the legs, substantially as set forth.- n

Signed by me this lst day of December, A.

EPHRAIM TUCKER. Witnesses:

WM. B. SPROUT, FREDK. J. BARNAED.

IOO 

